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From: bloodofenoch@goddamnfruit.com ({ Secret Chief })
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Subject: Re: Divination with Geomancy and Liber 963
Date: 13 Nov 2002 04:40:48 -0800
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Joseph wrote in message news:<3DD201DC.62100A55@pacbell.net>...
> i thought it was west African for origin
The jury's still out on that one. Whether the Arabs picked it up from
the West Africans or vice-versa is a bit in dispute.
> but isn't tossing objects on
> dirt/sand fairly common? and since at least in the g.d. papers on the
> subject, the geomantic images are placed on one of the old square
> astrological charts, wouldn't relating the astrological symbolism as an
> horary overlay to the geomantic system be relatively simple, at least
> the actual construction of such a set, the interpretation could be more
> difficult.